Abstract
For centuries since the Renaissance, text and image have been moving in two separate and homogeneous areas: the image was the exclusive medium of painting, while the text was the exclusive medium of literature. In the twentieth century, we encounter more and more cases when the text longs to return to the canvas. This paper attempts to classify these cases, separating them into three large classes: the juxtaposed text and image, the scribble, and the text as image. The appearance of text on canvas raises the question of whether this practice has aesthetic relevance. Should we read painted text in the same way as printed text? Does the pleasure of text change when it is embodied in visual works? My hypothesis is that here we can talk about a new kind of pleasure in the text, and I describe the specificity of this pleasure.
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Painted text, Scribble, Embodied text, The pleasure of text
